(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
40%
20%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
50%
40%↓
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
50%↑
40%↓
30%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Wanda James
(D) Milat Kiros
80%
20%
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
40%↓
30%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
30%↑
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
55%↓
45%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Shannon Bird
(D) Manny Rutinel
45%↓
30%
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) The current Sept/Oct edition of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries has an opinion piece by John McCain outlining his health plan: Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more […]
The other day my mother started crying. “When will this ever end?” I didn’t want to tell her the truth, which is when Dad dies. The cause of her tears is Medicare Part D, written by the pharmaceutical industry for the Republicans. My parents are on a program, United Health, that is a good one. […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) In a Senate race with an opponent who was recently all but booed off the stage at a John McCain campaign event in Colorado Springs, Mark Udall should be farther ahead than he is. The reasons for Udall’s inability to leave Bob Schaffer in the dust are numerous: Dick […]
As the Rocky Mountain News reports: The approximately 600 American flags handed to local Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion chapters Friday were real. The story behind them was either good politics or a political stunt. The campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain claims the flags were among 12,000 left at Invesco Field […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) From our “fair and balanced” friends at Fox News. To their credit they do describe the claim in a skeptical manner, though they describe the incident itself in great detail, and with, what one might call, a flair for the dramatic. Democrats are not caring for their Stars and […]
The health insurance initiative that we will vote on in November will reduce middle income workers’ access to health care, give employers incentives to buy the cheapest and least comprehensive insurance possible and give beneficiaries incentives to overuse health care providers’ services. In an effort to give health insurance to a few thousand uninsured illegal […]
From World Net Daily: But if there is one characteristic of [the candidate’s] life that should disqualify him absolutely as a candidate for president, it is the fact that he has sought out millionaire wives to take care of him. Not to put too fine a point on it, he’s a serial gigolo. Let me […]
Do you remember a year ago when the oil industry confidently predicted “a billion dollars” in Roan Plateau lease revenue would go to Colorado, if we would just go along with their demands to “drill here, drill now?” Only off by $885 million or so, as the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Both opponents and supporters […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Will Bob Schaffer get the memo? Human life needs to be protected at every stage, beginning at the single-cell stage. Colorado’s Personhood Amendment (Amendment 48), which defines life as beginning at fertilization, goes to voters in November. “A founding principle of Focus on the Family – and a driving […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) {First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.} Both Congressman Mark Udall and Republican Bob Schaffer oppose a state ballot initiative that would ban abortion by codifying that “personhood” begins at embryonic fertilization. While the anti-choice crowd probably wasn’t planning on voting for Udall anyway, this could be […]
Seriously, as Time Magazine points out it’s not only safe to check your vehicle’s tire pressure but it also improves gas mileage and can reduce oil demand. The Bush administration estimates that expanded offshore drilling could increase oil production by 200,000 barrels per day by 2030. We use about 20 million barrels per day, so […]
Mitch McConnell was going for cheap political points and Ken Salazar answered him very well quietly including that McConnell’s proposal was a “phantom solution.” Kudos to Senator Salazar for being the responsible adult where his doing so will be used against him. Watching this got me thinking about the following: It looks like the main […]
(We prefer to think of ourselves as “anti-idiotarian” – promoted by Colorado Pols) The Colorado Model: Cash The left’s magnificent new machine! OPINION – Colorado Springs Gazette 07-31-2007 The right could learn a lot from the left. This year will dramatically change politics in the United States. It’s the year old façades come […]
UPDATE: The Udall campaign just sent out the first of what they promise will be daily “double-takes” on questionable statements made by Schaffer during yesterday’s debate (follows), leading up to its broadcast this Sunday. Up first? Schaffer’s head-scratching quote: “I didn’t cut a deal with the Iraqis, with the Kurds. That’s not why I went […]
There’s an interesting write-up of one of the more hard-hitting ads we’ve seen here in Colorado so far this election cycle in Friday’s Rocky Mountain News. This piece hits on a point I think others have missed in the discussion of this issue over the past couple weeks: whatever the particular wording or tactics being […]
Even the staunchly conservative editor-in-chief of the Rocky Mountain News has heard enough: Republican Bob Schaffer has spent the week suggesting that his opponent in the U.S. Senate race, Democrat Mark Udall, is a hypocrite because he sponsored a resolution in 2002 denouncing Saddam Hussein in the strongest terms, stipulating that he possessed a variety […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) How much is too much for working people to be paying for their energy needs? Prices keep going higher, but we common working folks aren’t going to see any relief if the Democratic Leadership in Congress have anything to say about it: http://thehill.com/leading-the… Despite all the hopes of the […]
UPDATE: Fitz-Gerald campaign denies they are the source of negative phone calls against Polis. This past week saw the first negative retail campaigning in the CD-2 race. Candidate Joan Fitz-Gerald’s campaign has apparently been making phone calls to targeted voters directly attacking opponent Jared Polis, though it’s unclear whether these were simply “robocalls” or live […]
Yesterday, we talked about how local politics can create a change in the way our cities and even states use energy, so much so, that we can change the policy of the utility companies themselves. AnotherMassachusettsLiberal commented on an interesting program in his community,called ‘Green Start’ and described it like this : I pay extra […]
Welcome to Part 2: Local Energy Initiatives: This will cover some of the ways citizens have gotten involved in passing laws to change their options for energy use, effectively giving a level playing field fo renewable energy. Now, although this post seems to be Colorado focused, the fact is, in part due to the location […]
This past week there has been a lot of talk from both Bush and McCain about the necessity for the Congress to start permitting new drilling sites for Oil companies in the face of high oil prices, as seen in this video from the BBC, even though there is plenty of evidence that the real […]
(Now the Republicans will have an excuse when they lose in November – promoted by DavidThi808) UPDATED TO ADD: Libertarians nominated Bob Barr, former Republican Congressman from Georgia, as the party’s standard bearer for president Sunday afternoon in Denver. This is key because Barr is attacking McCain on conservative principles and now has access to […]
McCain is at it again, despite being cute on Saturday Night Live, he is out there making statements again on Obama’s foreign policy. I have news for Senator Obama, talking, in unconditionally with a man who says Israel is a rotting corpse, will not get Iran to give up their Nuclear weapons program and it […]
You tell us — check out this “View From the Newsroom” blog entry from Grand Junction Sentinel editor Dennis Herzog: Newspaper editors and political reporters don’t need a calendar to tell them that it’s an even-numbered year. Even-numbered years are election years. We can tell that because those are the years when we get complaints […]
Republican Party Chair Dick Wadhams is really mad that he can’t get the press to do his bidding, so he’s resorted to bullying and threats in hopes of getting the media to pretend his candidate for Senate, Bob Schaffer, doesn’t have any warts at all. Wadhams and Schaffer shamelessly attacked and belittled a blog reporter […]
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